Achievers 1 WBCS (Main) Exam. Paper–IV Practice Set Answers with Explanation

1. (b) 6. (d) Both assertion and reason are false. Regeneration 2. (c) Phobia is a kind of intense fear from something. is not itself a strategy but rather the shedding e.g., hydrophobia, ailurophobia is fear of cats, off of any organ is a strategy to avoid predation. astraphobia is fear of thunder and lightning, The strategy to regenerate the body parts from achluophobia is fear of darkness. Neurosis is the pre-existing tissue or adult stem cells. This less severe than mental illness and is normal to actually involves the de-differentiation of the overcome worry, fear, anxiety and feeling of mature cells to make them a sort of stem cells insecurity. This can also develop due to again which can then differentiate to make the maladaptive habits. Hypochondria is a condition lost part. The later strategy is different than in which there is undue concern about health the strategy involved in escaping predation. by a person about himself. Insomnia is lack of 7. (b) An enzyme is basically a protein which acts sleep over many nights. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å like a catalyst in the metabolic reaction and the 3. (b) Cigarette smoke contains N-nitrosodimethylene juice of the pancreas is basically composed and causes accumulation of toxics in lungs from three enzymes trypsin, amylase and lipase. and arteries to block the passages. Mustard 8. (b) Progesterone is released from the female gas, chemically known as Bis (2-chloroethyl) gonads. It has roles in the female menstrual sulphide, blocks lungs and affects respiration cycle, pregnancy and embryogenesis. Growth as it is a strong mutagen and Carcinogen. hormone or somatropin or somatropin, is a Asbestos affects lungs and pleural membranes peptide hormone that stimulates growth, cell as it is made up of tiny fibers that enter into reproduction and regeneration in humans and lungs when breathed in. Vinylchloride is an other animals, the pituitary gland secretes this

organochloride, H2C = CHCl is highly toxic, hormone. The pancreas secretes insulin that flammable and carcinogenic and lungs are regulates the sugar metabolism in the body. affected. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å Cortisol is released from the zona fasciculata 4. (c) Jaundice is a result of increased bile pigments of the adrenal cortex in response to stress. in the blood. Defects of heart valves leads to 9. (b) Electroencephalography (EEG) is the recording stenosis, in which the blood vessels are of electrical activity along the scalp. EEG narrowed abnormally so, there is abnormal measures voltage fluctuations resulting from blood sounds. Highly allergic infection and ionic current flows in neurons of the brain. inflammation of nose is known as Rhinitis. Electrocardiography (ECG) is a transthoracic Paralysis is the loss of motor functions due to interpretation of the electrical activity of the damage to nervous system. heart over a period of time detected by 5. (a) Leucocytes are white blood cells. These electrodes attached to the surface of the skin comprise of neutrophils which provide and recorded external device. Electroo- protection to the body through phagocytosis culography (EOG) is a technique of measuring of bacteria and thus act as scavengers. The the corneoretinal standing potential existing basophils are the granulocytes which contain between the front and the back of the human histamines and heparin. Heparin thins blood to eye. Electromyography (EMG) is a technique prevent clotting. Histamines dilate the blood for evaluating physiologic properties of muscles. vessels and increase the permeability of 10. (a) xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å capillaries. Monocytes are of two types namely 11. (b) Milch animals are those animals which are macrophages and dendritic cells. Acidophils take source of milk, e.g. cow, goat, buffalo. Foot- up role in anti-allergic reactions and wound and mouth disease, caused by Aphthae healing. The lymphocytes are B cells, T cells epizooticae is an infectious disease that affects and natural killer cells. These are mainly involved cloven-hoofed animals. Anthrax is an acute in the immune responses by producing specific infectious disease caused by the bacterium antibodies. Bacillus anthracis. Blackleg, black quarter is 2 î¡ìÅ éôé 8– £z¢%Ä éôé 10  ‹y˜%ëûy!îû– 2021 xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å

an infectious bacterial disease caused by to it in comparison to the kinetic energy of Clostridium chauvoei affecting cattle, sheep and heavy body. goats. Cowpox is caused by cowpox virus and 22. (b) It has been calculated in the theory of the is infectious. chapter i.e., 12. (b) Washing soda is sodium salt of carbonic acid. mg v2 h  It occurs as a crystalline heptahydrate, which R1  1   , on heating looses its water to form a white 2 rga  powder monohydrate. This process is called mg v2 h  efflorescence. and R 1   , R < R . xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å 2 2 rga  1 2 Na CO · 7H Oheat Na CO · H O + 6H O 2 3 2 2 3 2 2 23. (a) A steam engine converts the heat energy 13. (a) Electron – 9.1 × 10–31 kg produce by coal into kinetic energy and this Proton – 1.00728 u xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å produces electricity which further light the lamp Neutron – 1.00867 u and convert electricity into heat and light. 14. (d) Silver forms a black thin layer of silver sulphide 24. (c) When spoon is dropped gently, its tangential on reaction with hydrogen sulphide which is speed is equal to the speed of spaceship, and present in trace amount in the atmosphere. so it revolves like a satellite. 15. (a) Consumption of high concentration of fluoride 25. (d) A - (r); B - (p); C - (s); D - (q) causes mottling of teeth or fluorosis. 26. (c) Velocity of object w.r.t mirror = 10 cm/s 90 2+ 16. (c) In Sr , So velocity of image w.r.t you 38 = 2 × 10 = 20 cm/s. Atomic number = no. of protons = 38 27. (a) Properties of different types of magnets are; Since it has lost 2e– so no. of electrons = 38 Artificial magnet- short lived, permanent – 2 = 36 magnetlong lived, Temporary magnet- induced Atomic mass = no. of protons + no. of neutrons magnet, earth as a magnet- last for infinitely 90 = 38 + no. of neutrons long period. 90 – 38 = no. of neutrons xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å 28. (c) When a light wave passes from one medium to 52 = no. of neutrons other, its frequency remains constant but its Hence, no. of neutrons = 52, no. of protons = speed and wavelength change. 38. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å 29. (d) Refractive index of a medium depends on its 17. (d) Formic acid – Ant’s sting nature. Refractive index (µ) is also given by Tartaric acid – Tamarind sini Oxalic acid – Spinach µ = sin r Citric acid – Orange where i = angle of incidence 18. (b) CaO + H O  Ca(OH) + heat 2 2 r = angle of refraction Ca(OH) formed will be basic thus pH > 7. 2 Thus, µ depends on the angle of incidence. 19. (b) Scientist Discovery C Moseley – Atomic number Again, µ  0 where C is the velocity of c 0 Chadwick – Neutron light in vacuum and c is the velocity in a Millikan – Measurement of charge of an medium. We know that frequency remains electron. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å constant when light passes from one medium Aston – Mass spectrograph to other, therefore, 20. (c) Solar energy is not responsible for green house  effect instead it is a source of energy for the   0  xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å plants and animals. The colour of light depends on wavelength. 21. (d) Because they have equal momenta, hence equal Thus, µ depends on the colour of the incident mv, the heavy body will move very slowly and ray. the light body will move very quickly. As Kinetic 30. (d) The medical name for long-sightedness is 1 energy is mv2. Thus the speed of the light hypermetropia, sometimes called hyperopia. 2 Eyesight problems, such as hypermetropia, are body will be high giving a higher kinetic energy also known as refractive errors. Long sight Achievers 3

leads to problems with near vision, and the areas. However, the present forest cover in eyes may commonly become tired. Distance India is around 21-22 %. vision (long sight) is, in the beginning, often 39. (b) CO2 is the largest contributor towards global clear. Long sight can be corrected by glasses warming, followed by methane, CFCs and N2O. or contact lenses, or sometimes ‘cured’ with 40. (b) Arihant is a class of nuclear–powered ballistic laser eye surgery. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å missile submarine. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å 31. (b) Forests are renewable natural resources and AWACS, abbreviation of Airborne Warning and enhance the quality of environment by Control System, is a mobile, long–range providing the Oxygen needed to sustain life on surveillance and control centre for air defence, the earth. Although both assertion and reason developed by the U.S. Air Force, is mounted are correct statements but reason is not the on Boeing 707 aircraft. correct explanation of the assertion. Atlas – Centaur is an American expendable 32. (a) Plants are called primary producers because launch system. It is the first production rocket plants produce their food themselves through stage to use cryogenic propellent. Nag is a the process of photosynthesis. third generation fire–and–forget” anti-tank 33. (d) As we go higher in the trophic levels through missile of India. the food chain, the loss of energy due to 41. (a) Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is respiration as well as metabolic activities headquartered in Bengaluru. The Inter– successively increase. University Centre for Astronomy and So, there occurs the transference of only 10% Astrophysics (IUCAA) is located in Pune, India. of the preceding trophic level to the next higher Inter–University Accelaerator Centre (IUAC) is trophic level. an autonomous research facility of University 34. (b) The concept of biodiversity hotspot was given Grants Commission which is based in New by Norman Myers. In 1988 he first identified Delhi. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) 10 tropical forest “hotspots” characterised by is a major space research centre of the Indian both exceptional level of plant endemism and Space Research Organisation, focusing on by serious levels of habitat loss. Later on, rocket and space vehicles, is located in Conservation International (CI) adopted Myers’ Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å hotspots. They gave a broad definition criteria 42. (a) Holmium-166-chitosan complex for the of the Biodiversity hotspot. treatment of knee and joint synovitis. The four 35. (a) Recycling is the best way to get rid of naturally occurring isotopes of iron, iron-54, nonbiodegradable waste. Burying will not have iron-56, iron-57, and iron-58 are used primarily any effect on the non-biodegradable wastes. as tracers in studies on blood. Arsenic -74 is Burning causes pollution. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å used to detect the tumours in the human body. 36. (d) Materials from land’s surface can travel through Phosphorus-32 is used in radiotherapy in cancer the soil ultimately reaching the groundwater. patients. For example pesticide and fertilizers can enter 43. (a) One causal virus of gonorrhea has been detected into the ground water supplies. Untreated waste which is more aggressive than HIV in spreading from septic tanks and toxic chemicals from AIDS and is resistance to any antibiotic. underground storage tanks and leaky landfills Although no infected persons are yet detected can also contaminate groundwater. with this virus. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å 37. (c) The process of transfer of energy from 44. (b) Param Padma, a supercomputer was introduced producers through a series of organisms, i.e., in April 2003. It had a peak speed of 1024 from primary consumers to secondary GFLOPS (about 1 TFLOP) and a peak storage consumers and from secondary consumers to of 1 TB. tertiary consumers by process of eating and 45. (b) Dhamar — Krishna theme. Dhamar is one of being eaten is known as a food chain. The the talas used in Hindustani classical music. It correct food chain is phytoplankton  is associated with the dhrupad style and typically zooplankton  fish. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å played on the pakhawaj. Dhamar tala has 14 38. (d) National Forest Policy has recommended that beats grouped asymmetrically into a 5 - 2 - 3 in order to maintain the ecological balance there - 4 pattern. should be 33 % area under the forest in plain xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å 4 î¡ìÅ éôé 8– £z¢%Ä éôé 10  ‹y˜%ëûy!îû– 2021 xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å Thumri — Words are important. Thumr+ is a 47. (a) A – Sahitya Academy 1. 1954 common genre of semi-classical Indian B – Sangeet Natak Academy 2. 1953 music.The text is romantic or devotional in C – National Book Trust 3. 1957 nature, and usually revolves around a girl’s love D – National School Drama 4. 1959 xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å for Krishna. The lyrics are usually in Uttar 48. (a) Andhra Pradesh – Kuchipudi, Ottam Thedal, Pradesh dialects of Hindi called Awadhi and Mohiniattam Kolattam Brij Bhasha. Thumri is characterized by its Kerala – Kathakali, Kaikottikali sensuality, and by a greater flexibility with the Tamil Nadu – Bharatnatyam, Kolattam, raga. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å Oyilattam etc. Tarana — Rhythm is important. The structure Odisha – Odissi, Ghumara, Sambalpuri consists of a main melody, usually short, 49. (a) A. Bhand pathar 1. Kashmir repeated many times, with variation and B. Swang 2. Haryana & U.P. elaboration at the performer’s discretion. There C. Nautanki 3. Uttar Pradesh is a second, contrasting melody, usually with D. Naach 4. Madhya Pradesh higher notes, which is introduced once before These are all the traditional folk dance forms returning to the main melody. of the respective states. Tappa — Extinct. Tappa is a form of Indian 50. (a) All the names given are of different types of semiclassical vocal music. Its specialty is its puppet dance forms belonging to the respective rolling pace based on fast, subtle and knotty states. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å construction. Its tunes are melodious, sweet 51. (b) A. Sitar 1. Pt. Ravi Shankar and depict the emotional outbursts of a lover. B. Tabla 2. Ustad Shafat Ahmed Khan 46. (d) All of the statements given above are correct. C. 4. Hari Prasad Chaurasiya Wind instruments- A is a D. Sarod 3. Ustad Amjad Ali Khan that contains some type of 52. (c) Both the given statements are correct. The resonator (usually a tube), in which a column Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually of air is set into vibration by the player blowing to honour a living architect whose built work into (or over) a mouthpiece set at the end of demonstrates a combination of those qualities the resonator. The pitch of the vibration is of talent, vision and commitment, which has determined by the length of the tube and by produced consistent and significant contributions manual modifications of the effective length of to humanity and the built environment through the vibrating column of air. In the case of the art of architecture.” Founded in 1979 by some wind instruments, sound is produced by Jay A. Pritzker and his wife Cindy, the award blowing through a reed; others require buzzing is funded by the Pritzker family and sponsored into a metal mouthpiece. Percussion by the Hyatt Foundation and is considered to instruments- A percussion instrument is a be one of the world’s premier architecture musical instrument that is sounded by being prizes; it is often referred to as the Nobel Prize struck or scraped by a beater (including of architecture. The prize is said to be awarded attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, “irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against ideology.” The recipients receive US$100,000, another similar instrument. The percussion a citation certificate, and a bronze medallion. family is believed to include the oldest musical The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling instruments, following the human voice. Prize is a British prize for excellence in Chordophone- A chordophone is any musical architecture. It is named after the architect instrument that makes sound by way of a James Stirling, organised and awarded annually vibrating string or strings stretched between by the Royal Institute of British Architects two points. It is one of the four main divisions (RIBA). The RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to of instruments in the original Hornbostel-Sachs “the architect of the building which has made scheme of musical instrument classification. the greatest contribution to British architecture The string instruments are classified as in the past year.” The architects must be RIBA chordophones. Violins, guitars, lyres, and harps members, but the building can be anywhere in are examples. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å the European Union. Stirling Prize laureates receive a stipend of GB£20,000. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å Achievers 5

53. (b) The government of India laurelled the 57. (a) Correctly matched : International Gandhi peace prize in 1995.This Ravindra Jadeja — Cricket is an annual award given to individuals and Gagan Narang — Shooting institutions for their contributions towards Saina Nehwal — Badminton xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å social, economic and political transformation Somdev Devvarman — Tennis through non-violence and other Gandhian 58. (d) Correctly matched : methods. The award carries ‘10 million in cash, Wally Grout — Cricket. Arthur Theodore convertible in any currency in the world, a Wallace Grout was a Test cricketer who kept plaque and a citation. It is open to all persons wicket for Australia and Queensland. Grout regardless of nationality, race, creed or sex. played in 51 Test matches between 1957 and 54. (a) Kabir was a mystic poet and saint, whose 1966. writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti Eusebio — Football. Eusébio da Silva Ferreira, movement. The name Kabir comes from Arabic GCIH, GCM.(25 January 1942 – 5 January al-Kabir which means ‘The Great’ – the 37th 2014) was a Mozambican-born Portuguese name of God in Islam. The Imperial Princess football forward. He is considered one of the Gulbadan Begum was a Perso-Turkic Princess, greatest footballers of all time. During his the daughter of Emperor Babur, she is most professional career, he scored 733 goals in 745 known as the author of Humayun Nama, the matches. account of the life of her half-brother, Rod Laver — Lawn Tennis. Rodney George Humayun. Abu al-Rayhan Muhammad ibn “Rod” Laver MBE is an Australian former Ahmad albiruni known as Alberonius in Latin professional tennis player who holds the record and Albiruni in English, was a Persian- for most singles titles won in the history of Khwarezmian Muslim scholar and polymath tennis, with 200 career titles. from the Khwarezm region. Malik Muhammad Mark spitz — Swimming. Mark Andrew Spitz Jayasi was an Indian poet who wrote in the is an American former swimmer, Olympic Avadhi dialect of Hindi. He hailed from Jais, champion, and former world record-holder. He presently a city in the Rae Barieli district in won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Uttar Pradesh. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å Olympics, an achievement only surpassed by 55. (a) Maila Aanchal — Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’ Michael Phelps. Chand Ka Munh Tedha hai — Muktibodh 59. (a) Correctly matched : Bharat Durdasa — Bhartendu Harishchandra Country — National game Mare Gaye Gulfam — Phanishwar Nath ‘Renu’ Indian — Hockey xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å 56. (d) In custody. Anita Mazumdar Desai is a novelist Spain — Bull Fighting and professor of Humanities at the Japan — Judo Massachusetts Institute of Technology. China — Table Tennis Sea of Poppies — Amitav Ghosh. Amitav 60. (a) The correctly matched pairs are : Ghosh, is a Bengali author best known for his Largest lake — Jammu and Kashmir work in English fiction. Largest delta — Sunderbans (Kolkata) The Argumentative Indian — Amartya Sen. Largest planetarium — Kolkata Amartya Kumar Sen, is an Indian economist Highest airport — Leh (Ladakh) and a Nobel laureate. He has made contributions 61. (a) The correctly matched pairs are : to welfare economics, social choice theory, Khadakvasla — National Defence Academy. The economic and social justice, economic theories National Defence Academy (NDA) is the Joint of famines. Services academy of the Indian Armed Forces, My Presidential Years — R. Venkata Raman. where cadets of the three services, the Army, Ramaswamy Venkataraman was a lawyer, the Navy and the Air Force train together before Indian independence activist and politician who they go on to pre-commissioning training in served as a Union minister and as the eighth their respective service academies. The NDA President of India. Venkataraman was born in is located in Khadakwasla near Pune, Rajamadam village in Tanjore district, Madras Maharashtra. It is the first tri-service academy Presidency. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å in the world. 6 î¡ìÅ éôé 8– £z¢%Ä éôé 10  ‹y˜%ëûy!îû– 2021 xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å

Konark — Sun Temple. Konark Sun Temple is of his era and reputedly the highest paid author a 13th cetury temple, at Konark, in Odisha, during the 1930s. India. It was supposedly built by king The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie. Sir Narasimhadeva I of Eastern Ganga Dynasty Ahmed Salman Rushdie is a British Indian around 1250. novelist and essayist. His second novel, Kolhapur — Ambabai. The Shri Mahalakshmi Midnight’s Children, won the Booker Prize in Temple of Kolhapur in Maharashtra, India, is 1981. Much of his fictions are set in the Indian one of the Shakti Peethas listed in various subcontinent. puranas of Hinduism. According to these Portait of India – Ved Mehta. Ved Parkash Mehta writings, a Shakti Peetha is a place associated is a writer who was born in Lahore, British with Shakti, the goddess of power. India. He lost his sight at the age of four to Kolkata — Victorial Memorial. The Victoria cerebrospinal meningitis. Memorial is a large marble building in Kolkata, Rage of Angels – Sidney sheldon. Sidney West Bengal, India which was built between Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 1906 and 1921. 2007) was an American writer. His TV works 62. (b) The correctly matched pairs are : xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å spanned a 20-year period during which he Labour’s Day — 1st May created The Patty Duke Show (1963–66), I Anti-Tobacco Day — 31st May Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart Mother’s Day — 2nd May (1979–84), but he became most famous after National Girl Child Day — 24th Jan. he turned 50 and began writing best-selling 63. (d) Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (Education for all novels, such as Master of the Game (1982), Movement) is a programme by the Government The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of India aimed at the universalization of of Angels (1980). He is the seventh best selling elementary education “in a time bound manner”, fiction writer of all time. as mandated by the 86th amendment to the All these are names of famous books written Constitution of India making free education to by the respective authors. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å children aged 6–14 a fundamental right. The 68. (a) Anand Bhawan — J.L.Nehru.The Anand Bhavan programme was pioneered by Atal Bihari is a historic house museum in Allahabad, Vajpayee. SSA is being implemented in focusing on the Nehru-Gandhi Family. It was partnership with State Governments to cover constructed by Motilal Nehru in the 1930s to the entire country and address the needs of serve as the residence of the Nehru family 192 million children in 1.1 million habitations. when the original mansion Swaraj Bhavan 64. (a) FBI – USA (previously called Anand Bhavan) was MOSSAD – Israel transformed into the local headquarters of the KGB/ GRU – Russia Indian National Congress. Naicho – Japan Sabarmati — Mahatma Gandhi.Sabarmati All these terms are the names of investigative Ashram (also known as Gandhi Ashram, Harijan bureaus of the following countries. Ashram, or Satyagraha Ashram) is located in 65. (a) Eskimo – Canada the Sabarmati suburb of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, Khirgir – Central Asia xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å on the banks of the River Sabarmati. This was Masai – Tanzania one of the residences of Mohandas Karamchand Maori – New Zealand Gandhi, generally called Mahatma Gandhi, who All these are names of tribes existing in their lived there for about twelve years along with respective countries. his wife, Kasturba Gandhi. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å 66. (d) All the statements given above are correct in Kushi Nagar — Gautam Buddha. Kushinagar, respect of the books and their authors. Kusinagar or Kusinara is a town and a Nagar 67. (d) The correctly matched pairs are : panchayat in Gorakhpur Uttar Pradesh located Moon and Six pence – Somerset around NH-28, being 52 km east to Gorakhpur. Maughan.William Somerset Maugham CH was Kundgram — Mahavir. Mahavira was Kshatriya a British playwright, novelist and short story of the Jnatri clan and a native of the (Kshatriya) writer. He was among the most popular writers Kundagram, a suburb of the town of Vaishali Achievers 7

(near Patna). He was the second son of 80. (d) A cow shelter in Assam’s Dibrugarh inaugurated Siddhartha and Trishala. Northeast’s first-ever cow hospital, on the 69. (a) Central Rice Research — Cuttack Institute occasion of Gopashtami. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å National Dairy Research — Karnal Institute 81. (b) The 27th edition of India – Singapore Bilateral National Institute of — Panaji Oceanography Maritime Exercise SIMBEX-20 has been National Aeronautical — Bangalore Laboratory organised from 23 to 25 November 2020 in 70. (c) The correctly matched pairs are : xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å the Andaman Sea. Steve Jobs – Apple. Steven Paul “Steve” Jobs 82. (c) The incumbent President of Ivory Coast, was an American entrepreneur, marketer, and Alassane Ouattara, has won a third 5-year term inventor, who was the co-founder, chairman, in a landslide victory, gaining more than 94 and CEO of Apple Inc. percent of the votes polled. Sheryl Sandberg – Facebook. Sheryl Kara 83. (a) Bollywood actor Faraaz Khan has passed away. Sandberg is an American businesswoman. Till 84. (a) Star chef Vikas Khanna has authored a book August 2013, she had been the chief operating titled “Kitchens of Gratitude” in which he has officer of Facebook. written about his Feed India initiative. 71. (d) The Indian national team have moved up a 85. (d) Retired Colonel Dr Girija Shanker Mungali has spot to 104 in the latest FIFA Rankings. The been appointed as one of the seven members Indian team were ranked 108th in the October of the Asian Football Confederation’s task 2020 rankings. force. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å 72. (a) Cambridge Dictionary has named ‘quarantine’ 86. (d) A new book titled “Voices of Dissent” authored as Word of the Year 2020. The word has been by Historian Romila Thapar will be jointly named the word of the year based on data that published by Penguin Random House India and showed that it was one of the most highly Seagull Books. searched words on the Cambridge Dictionary 87. (a) India has withdrawn its participation from the this year. multilateral Military Exercise “Kavkaz 2020” 73. (d) The Bowring and Lady Curzon Medical College scheduled to be held in Russia from 15th to and Research Institute in Bengaluru have been 26th September 2020. named after former Prime Minister Atal Bihari 88. (a) “e-Office” application has been launched in over Vajpayee. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å 500 CGST and Customs offices across India 74. (a) Russia successfully test-fired a Tsirkon by the Chairman of CBIC to automate the hypersonic cruise missile in the Arctic. internal office procedures of Central Board of 75. (d) Bahrain’s Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman al- Indirect Taxes and Customs. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å Khalifa, has passed away. He was 84. Prince 89. (a) The World Water Week 2020 will be observed Khalifa was not only the longest serving PM of as the World Water Week at Home from 24th Bahrain, but he was the world’s longest-serving August to 28th August 2020. prime minister. 90. (d) The theme for World Water Week 2020 at Home 76. (d) The world number one Chen Meng beat Chinese is ‘Water and Climate change: Accelerating compatriot Sun Yingsha 11-13 11-6 11-9 11-6 Action’. 11-8 to win her maiden ITTF Women’s World 91. (c) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has Cup table tennis title in held in Weihai, China, appointed Takeo Konishi as its new Country from 8 to 10 November 2020. Director for India. 77. (a) The World Pneumonia Day is observed across 92. (c) Madagascar has replaced the Maldives as the the world on November 12 every year to raise host of the 2023 Indian Ocean Island Games awareness, promote prevention and treatment due to concerns over the COVID-19 Pandemic. and produce action to combat the disease. 93. (c) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia is the headquarter of 78. (b) Among the states category, Tamil Nadu bagged the Badminton World Federation (BWF) located. the Best State Award, followed by Maharashtra 94. (d) Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology (WIHG), and Rajasthan. an autonomous institute of the Department of 79. (d) India will host the Summit of the G20 Group Science & Technology, Government of India, in 2023. India was earlier slated to host the virtually celebrated the ‘Himalaya Diwas’. summit in 2022. 95. (c) The Chief Minister of Maharashtra Uddhav xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å Thackeray has launched a state-wide campaign 8 î¡ìÅ éôé 8– £z¢%Ä éôé 10  ‹y˜%ëûy!îû– 2021 xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å

titled, ‘My Family, My Responsibility’, to curb Jeevan Jyoti Bima Yojana (PMJJBY)’ for its the spread of coronavirus pandemic. customers to bring large sections of the 96. (c) For the FY22 (2021-22), ADB expects India’s underserved and unserved population into the GDP at 8 percent. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å financial mainstream. IPPB has collaborated with 97. (c) US President elect Joe Biden & Vice President PNB MetLife India Insurance Company for this elect Kamala Harris were named Time product. Magazine's 2020 'Person of the Year'. 100.(d) Greg Barclay, an Auckland-based commercial 98. (d) Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate lawyer and director of New Zealand Cricket Change, Prakash Javadekar has launched the (NZC) since 2012, has been elected as the “India Climate Change Knowledge Portal”. new chairman of the International Cricket 99. (d) India Post Payments Bank (IPPB) has launched Council (ICC) on 24 November 2020, after a a low-cost insurance scheme ‘Pradhan Mantri second round of voting. xÄy!‰þ¦þy¢Å

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